Radio Tip Of The Day.Radio's glossSub macro allows you to substitute the text phrase of your choice for the text normally associated with a shortcut. For example, earlier today I wrote a story titled Accessing FoxPro 2.x Data With DBFView. The link was generated using Radio's shortcut facility - the title of the story enclosed in double quotes is automatically resolved and converted into a link using the Story's title as the link text. Radio's shortcut feature does allow you to associate any text phrase you want with the shortcut, but this is a one-time thing; the shortcut text is permanently associated with the shortcut. Sometimes you want to change the link text depending on the context in which it is used to improve the readability of a sentence. That is where the glossSub macro comes in handy.
With the glossSub macro you can still refer to the linked item using a shortcut, but you can override the link text itself. Using the macro is incredibly easy. I used this syntax in a prior post: <%glossSub("Accessing FoxPro 2.x Data With DBFView", "adventure")%>. The first parameter is the shortcut itself, the second is the link text I want to use. An optional third parameter allows you to specify an anchor tag within a page.
The glossSub macro, shortcuts, and writing in Radio's outliner become an unbeatable authoring combination when you automate creation of story shortcuts.
This is a good one. We still use FoxPro 2.6 at work (and Sybase and Oracle and MS SQL Server...). This would allow me to include data in a k-log. Cool.
